JAMB captures 1.6 million candidates in 2023 UTME
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said no fewer than 1.6 million candidates have been captured in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at the close of registration.
JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this at the end of a joint monitoring exercise with the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr David Adejo, in Abuja, Monday.
Prof. Oloyede, disclosed that during the exercise, 15 persons were discovered to be defrauding the process, adding that the culprits had been apprehended and detained.
Oloyede also said that registration for Direct Entry candidates commenced this Monday.
“So far we have registered about 1.6 million candidates because we do not expect more than that, and that is because the Direct Entry starts today.
“We have the challenge of the normal people who want to defraud the process as we have been monitoring what has been happening.
“We are ahead of them even when they think they are clever,” Oloyede said.
The Permanent Secretary, in his remarks, said that there was the need to extend the registration to give others faced with the challenge of naira redesigning the opportunity to register.
“This is especially because the registration process is dependent on bank operations and we’ve not had the top level of bank operations in the last two to three weeks for understandable reasons,” he said.”
Asejo noted that before the extension of registration for one week, JAMB had actually registered about 98 per cent candidates, vowing that no one would be left behind in its registration.
The monitoring exercise took place at one of the Computer Based Centres (CBTs) at the Global Distance Learning Institute, Abuja, FCT.